Lakeland Boating Ports O Call Lake Michigan
O'Meara-Brown Publications; Inc.
Marina phone numbers, charts, aerial photos, etc. Useful!
The Sailor's Handbook: A Clear and Comprehensive Guide to Sailing for Pleasure and Sport
Halsey C. Herreshoff
Small book fully loaded: Know Your Boat; Wind and Sail; Ropes and Knots; Reading the Weather, etc.
Summer sail: Cruising Green Bay's historic waters
John B Torinus
Author Torinus brings his 50 years in journalism to this historical take of sailing the bay.
The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum, Annotated by Rod Scher
First guy to go around solo. Took 3 years in the oyster sloop, Spray. Nicely written, and the annotations provide historical context.
Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark
Christopher Dewdney
Ah, the night sky. What a concept! Dewdney explores it with a poetic eye and sense of adventure.
Hugh Downs
From the days of black and white TV, this Today Show host relates his sail across the Pacific in a memoir warm and charming as the Trade Winds.
Sir Francis Chichester
Custom built in a famous English yard, Gipsy Moth was one SOB to handle solo. Chichester was knighted for his feat with the same sword tapped on the shoulder of Sir Francis Drake. The English do know ritual.
Tania Aebi, Bernadette Brennan
And people were freaked out about Abby Sunderland's round-the-world solo attempt. Aebi did it in the 80s. That's before Facebook!
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
One heck of a science writer, Sobel illuminates the madness behind longitude.
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
People have been known to cry when reading this.
THE RACE: THE FIRST NONSTOP, ROUND-THE-WORLD, NO-HOLDS-BARRED SAILING COMPETITION.
Tim. Zimmerman
Death and Carnage, anyone?
Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat
Peter Nichols
The author reads his ex-girlfriend's journal on a solo across the Atlantic. Bittersweet and beautifully written.
Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her
David W. Shaw
A friend loaned this and we're glad she did. Historical fiction of an unusual event: A Clipper Ship with a female navigator.
Atlantic Monthly Press
Short stories, essays and reportage from decks of canoes, schooners, ice breakers, etc. Editor Seybold's own story begins, "There had always been boats."
Cork Boat: A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built
John Pollack
The author builds a boat out of wine corks, then sails it in Portugal. Good read, but know there's some DC politics in here as well.
Cruciverbalism: A Crossword Fanatic's Guide to Life in the Grid
Stanley Newman, Mark Lasswell
Beginning his "Pipsqueak Manifesto," Newman writes, "I remember the day I declared war on the New York Times crossword puzzle: October19, 1984." Funny stuff if you're one who works the grid.